著者

谷川 守正

出版者

教育哲学会

雑誌

教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1992, no.65, pp.69-84, 1992-05-10 (Released:2009-09-04)

参考文献数

40

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In Japanese educational reform life-long education is a key-concept. Education for children aims at promoting the ability of self-directed education and for adults it aims at creating local systems of life-long learning; but our education is not integrated as a whole. We shall define its key-concepts by a case study of self-directed education illustrated by the Ten Pictures of the Cow and the Shepherd, a Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhist text for training monks, in use since the 12th century.The text tells us how to search one's true Self forgotten in busy idleness. Ten pictures suggest two self-training worlds for learners and leaders. The author utilizes mechanisms of the series of quatrains with seven Chinese ideograms in each line in an original way to express integrated self-directed education systematically. We can also analyze the structure of the quatrains by means of the different tones in which characters are pronouced in Chinese. Ten introductions explain the key-words of the first lines of each quatrain philosophically.Five symmetrical pairs in the morphological structure denote the curriculum, guidance and methodology of self-directed education with five steps of different knowing in a cycle. According to religious philosophy the last three stages mark the appearance of absolute Nothingness in the independent Buddhist world; but for our educational philosophy they signify the process of self-realization of creative freedom in terms of historical, natural and social freedom followed by equality and solidarity. The text, based on the integrated principles of the human rights, is a model of our life-long integrated self-directed education moving in a cycle where anyone always can join freely.